White House, Senate Agree To $2 Trillion Coronavirus Rescue Package
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We ran the numbers: There are 4378 news articles covering this topic. 29% (1252) are left leaning, 48% (2086) center, 24% (1040) right leaning.
Early Wednesday, the Trump administration and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the White House and Senate reached a deal for a $2 trillion spending package. While left-leaning articles highlight the main components of the package, right-leaning articles highlight central Republican-led aspects of the bill.
The New York Times published a left-leaning article highlighting main components of the package, which includes that the government will send direct payments to taxpayers, unemployment benefits will grow substantially, and small businesses will receive emergency loans if they keep their workers. Furthermore, distressed companies can receive government bailouts and hospitals staggering under the burden of the coronavirus will receive aid.
A centrist article by NPR reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the legislation is a “wartime level of investment,” and called the growing epidemic “the most serious threat to Americans’ health in over a century.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also followed McConnell on the Senate floor, saying that the occasion was “not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity.”
New York Post published a right-leaning article highlighting that central to the bill is a Republican-led plan to send direct checks to millions of Americans, and loans to businesses. Furthermore, one of the last issues to be resolved included allocating $500 billion for guaranteed, subsidized loans to larger industries, because there was dispute over how generous to be with airline companies.
From the right
White House senate leaders strike deal on $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package
NY Post